Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Find the inverse of a polynomial function.
- Restrict the domain to find the inverse of a polynomial function.
A mound of gravel is in the shape of a cone with the height equal to twice the radius.
The volume is found using a formula from elementary geometry.
[latex]\begin{array}{l}V=\frac{1}{3}\pi {r}^{2}h\hfill \\ \text{ }=\frac{1}{3}\pi {r}^{2}\left(2r\right)\hfill \\ \text{ }=\frac{2}{3}\pi {r}^{3}\hfill \end{array}[/latex]
We have written the volume V in terms of the radius r. However, in some cases, we may start out with the volume and want to find the radius. For example: A customer purchases 100 cubic feet of gravel to construct a cone shape mound with a height twice the radius. What are the radius and height of the new cone? To answer this question, we use the formula
[latex]r=\sqrt[3]{\frac{3V}{2\pi }}[/latex]
This function is the inverse of the formula for V in terms of r.
In this section, we will explore the inverses of polynomial and rational functions and in particular the radical functions we encounter in the process.
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